Ran Lerner
Master's in Product Design
Year of Graduation: 1998
Current role: Designer
Ran Lerner is a prolific and accomplished product designer, graduated from Domus Academy in 1998 after having attended the Master’s Degree in Industrial Design.
Lerner is best known for the witty sensibility of his popular designs. The studio – Ran Lerner design, Inc. was established in 2004, designing a variety of products from furniture to tabletop and housewares.
Ran Lerner is a prolific and accomplished product designer, graduated from Domus Academy in 1998 after having attended the Master’s Degree in Industrial Design.
Lerner is best known for the witty sensibility of his popular designs. The studio – Ran Lerner design, Inc. was established in 2004, designing a variety of products from furniture to tabletop and housewares.
His designs’ target are clients of wide accessibility including Umbra, Joseph Joseph, Acme, Lenox, Wedgwood /Waterford, Rosenthal, Reed & Barton, Johnson & Johnson, Yamazaki, Kikkerland, Cambridge Silversmiths, Starwood Hotels, and other leading manufacturers. His work is based on the core concept of interaction of product and user, encouraging “touch” and emphasis on “relationship” of human to object. Lerner also promotes eco-friendly manufacturing by the efficient use of material and low energy fabricating technologies, often designing multi-functional products affordable for the public at large.
His designs have been featured in publications including “1000 product designs 2010”, “Wall street journal”, “New York Times’ “Time out New York”, “Food and wine”, “ID”, ”Domino”, “Gourmet”, “The Today Show”.
Ran Lerner’s designs can be found at retailers such as Macy’s, Bloomingdales, Crate & Barrel, The Conran Shop, Moma store, Bed bath & beyond, Target, and others.
Lerner teaches Industrial Design at The Parsons School of Design and at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology).
“There couldn’t be a better school, I’ve learned so much on the importance of a good concept, that makes a product better and not just different, an element that I try to embed in all my design today.”
